THE PROBLEM OF EVIL AND MATERIALISM

THE PROBLEM OF EVIL      The final area of internal critique of the materialistic worldview comes via the problem of evil. Intimately tied to the subject of objective morality, this issue for the Materialist is seemingly insurmountable given their foundational presuppositions. First, the recognition that evil does exist implies that there is an objective standard…

Bill Nye the Inconsistent Guy

I’m sure by now many of you have read Bill Nye and his comments made for evolutionism and against those who hold to a creationist understanding of origins. Just a quick comment if I may on this issue. In his statement, Nye states the following, “It’s just really a hard thing, it’s really a hard…

BAGS OF PROTOPLASM OR BAGS OF INCONSISTENCY?

Some of you may have seen the headlines; “New ancestor of pre-humans found.” What I am speaking about is the discovery in Siberia of a single pinkie bone that has led researchers to proclaim that this newly discovered “X woman” is “about twice as distant from humans on the evolutionary tree as from Neanderthals.” My…

Fine-Tuned Indeed

“He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power…” (Heb. 1:3, ESV) “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth,…

Dr. Greg Bahnsen vs. the “Theory” of Evolution

One of the greatest minds of the 20th century was that of Dr. Greg L. Bahnsen, a philosopher, theologian and minister in the OPC. Dr. Bahnsen was known as “The man that atheists fear most.” He earned that nickname when the famed atheist philosopher Dr. Michael Martin pulled out of a debate with him, just…

Theistic Evolution and Preconditions

The “Transcendental Argument for the Existence of God” argues in short that worldviews which oppose the Bible and the God of the Bible, fall well short of being able to account for the preconditions of intelligibility. What this means is opposing worldviews cannot account for that which is essential to understand human experience, such as…